Posts by Brian

Know of situations that can stunt careers or negatively impact organizations? Can Job rotation help improve or even remedy such cases? How do you implement job rotations as a program for different levels of the organization? Brian recommends a process to build and manage such programs, and highlights means to overcome perceivable realization hurdles.

Trust and respect are easily lost, yet hard to earn. Which key underpinnings of success should leaders pay attention to in daily interactions with staff and peers? Brian highlights the best practices he learned rising through the ranks to Senior Director level.

Ever been appointed a Team Lead, only to have your manager intervene periodically, and confusing team members as to who was in charge? Brian shares best practices for delegating-managers to support their team leaders to succeed, even when their resolution approaches are different.

Under intense timeline pressures, how can you avoid program delays, disruptions, and unwanted surprises that could crush your highly visible projects? Brian gives the insider-scoop to facilitate your interactions with the boss and executives, with the customers, with your team members and also their managers.

As managers we can work in the system, and control the risks by coordinating our people as resources within the confines. Or we can choose to add value and impact the value-chain, by creating opportunities for our people. Brian shares why he chose the latter to develop his staff members, and left a legacy, rather than just run a well-oiled process.

For many of us, our careers are a cornerstone of our lives, as we invested deeply in the success of the enterprise. Don't remain an organization that fails to engage the needs or values of the employees? Brian offers a good dose of common sense, focused on R.E.S.PE.C.T as the core enabler of your dedicated member’s needs and values.

You don't have to be a rookie or go through the school of hard knocks at writing performance appraisals. For appraisals to be truly effective, the recipient must understand it, respect it and be motivated to take the steps to improve. Brian offers his list of best practices for you to write effective appraisals as a leader, using a good dose of common sense.

How often does your customer-facing team(s) and technologies team(s) standoff over disagreements? As leaders, how do we walk a mile with not one but both camps? Read about Brian's experiences turning contentious relations (between the teams,) into collaborative respect amongst his stakeholders, shorter development timelines plus resource alignments!